Zug

See also: zug and zúg

English

canton of Zug

Etymology

From German Zug.

Proper noun

Zug

1. A canton of Switzerland.

   Synonym: canton of Zug

2. The capital city of Zug canton, Switzerland.

Translations

canton

• French: Zoug (fr) m
• German: Zug (de)
• Italian: Zugo

town

• French: Zoug (fr)
• German: Zug (de)
• Italian: Zug (it)

Anagrams

• guz

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡suːk/ (standard)

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• IPA^(key): /t͡sʊx/, /t͡suːx/ (northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial)
• Rhymes: -uːk, -ʊx

Etymology 1

From Middle High German zuc, zug, from Old High German zug, from Proto-West Germanic *tugi, from Proto-Germanic *tugiz, an abstract noun belonging to Proto-Germanic *teuhaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).

Cognate with Dutch teug, Hunsrik Zugh, English tug, Old English tyge. Compare to German ziehen (“to pull, to draw”).

Noun

Zug m (strong, genitive Zuges or Zugs, plural Züge)

1. train (multiple vehicles one behind the other, particularly travelling on rails)

   Synonyms: Bahn, Eisenbahn

2. pull (force that pulls in a specific direction)
3. draught (of air)

   Synonym: Luftzug

4. traction
5. course
6. (from a cigarette, etc.) drag, draught
7. (from a drink) draught, gulp
   • 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 36:

     Ein frisch gefülltes Glas Champagner stand vor ihm. Er trank es in einem Zug aus – mit Lust, fast mit Begier.

     A freshly filled glass of champagne was in front of him. He emptied it in one draught – with pleasure, almost with greed.

8. stroke
9. feature, trait

   Synonyms: Wesenszug, Eigenart, Eigenschaft

10. (military) platoon

    Synonyms: Schützenzug, Peloton

11. (turn based games) move, play

    Synonym: Spielzug

Declension

Declension of Zug [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Zug	die	Züge
genitive	eines	des	Zuges, Zugs	der	Züge
dative	einem	dem	Zug, Zuge1	den	Zügen
accusative	einen	den	Zug	die	Züge

¹Now uncommon, see notes.

Hyponyms

• Spielzug

 

Derived terms

• auf den Zug aufspringen
• Aufzug
• Autozug
• Bummelzug
• Fernzug
• Luftzug
• Regionalzug
• Schnellzug
• Schützenzug
• Sonderzug
• zugartig
• Zugbremse
• Zugfahrt
• zügig
• zugig
• Zugleine
• Zugluft
• Zugspitze
• Zugvogel
• Zugzwang

 

Descendants

• → Czech: cuk
• → Hungarian: cúg
• → Polish: cug

Etymology 2

Kanton Zug

Originally a use of Etymology 1 above, referring to the pulling up of fish with nets.

Alternative forms

• ZG (canton; ISO 3166-2:CH)

Proper noun

Zug n (proper noun, genitive Zugs or (optionally with an article) Zug)

2. Zug (a canton of Switzerland)

   Synonym: Kanton Zug

3. Zug (the capital city of Zug canton, Switzerland)

Declension

Declension of Zug [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Zug
genitive	des	Zugs, Zug1
dative	dem	Zug
accusative	das	Zug

¹Optionally with an article.

Derived terms

• Zuger, Zugerin

Further reading

• “Zug” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Zug” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Zug” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Zug on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Zug”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891